Dog Day Afternoon

These photos from a couple of years ago suggest a whole bunch of things, beginning with population density.

THE TIDE IS TURNING

“A growing number of Republicans are breaking with the party’s traditional stance [on gay marriage],” the Washington Postreported Saturday, “a shift strategists say stems as much from demographics as from the renewed focus on economics and the ‘tea party’ movement. . . .” Won’t it be nice when we have this behind us?

MARRIAGE EQUALITY PROTEST SIGNS

And while we’re at it, here’s a short video of marriage equality protest signs. A movement with a sense of humor.

GLENN BECK’S RALLY

If you missed it, here is an account. (“You can’t profit from fear and division [on TV] all week and then denounce them one Saturday on the National Mall in Washington and hope nobody notices. But Beck sure tried…”)

Quote of the Day

It was only 80 years from the time Darwin published ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES until we detonated the first nuclear bomb. In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

~Paleontologist Jack Horner

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